TORONTO -- Joe Sakic is everybody's MVP.

The captain of the Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche won the Hart Trophy on Thursday night at the NHL's annual awards dinner. Earlier in the day, he took the Lester B. Pearson Award as the NHL's most valuable player as voted on by the players. The Hart is chosen by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.

Sakic also won the Lady Byng Trophy as most gentlemanly player.

	Earlier on Thursday, Colorado captain Joe Sakic, left, was presented the Pearson Award by Peter Stastny.

The honors came five days Sakic hoisted the Stanley Cup following Colorado's victory over the New Jersey Devils in the seventh game of the championship series.

"It's a special time," he said of the whirlwind he's been in the eye of since last last autumn.

Sakic's wife, Debbie, gave birth to twins 7½ months ago -- Cameron, a girl, and Chase, a boy.

"It's nothing like the kids, but after the Stanley Cup, this has been a fun night," Sakic said. "I couldn't imagine a better week in the game of hockey.

"When I look back when my career is over, this is a time I will cherish."

Sakic, 31, is the fourth player to captain his club to the championship and win the Hart Trophy as league MVP in the same season. Mark Messier (1990, Edmonton), Wayne Gretzky (1984, 1985, 1987, Edmonton) and Bobby Clarke (1975, Philadelphia) also did it.

Sakic can convert his awards into a rich contract. He's eligible to become an unrestricted free agent July 1.

"There's been some talk already," Sakic said. "If everything worked out, it would be great to stay and finish my career there. I love Colorado.

"But I'm not sure what's going to happen. We'll see."

His Hart win was overwhelming. Sakic got 53 first-place votes and 585 points. Runner-up Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins got eight first-place votes and 272 points. Lemieux's teammate Jaromir Jagr fwas third.

This season, Sakic scored 118 points, including a league-high 46 on power plays, and served only 30 minutes in penalties while playing all 82 regular season games.

"I've always tried to be consistent," he said. "This year everything fell into place. The way the team played, it made all of us look good. You only get to these events if you're on a solid, quality team. To go all the way and win the Stanley Cup, that's all we wanted.

Sakic was runner-up for the Lady Byng in 1992. He beat out Detroit Red Wings defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom and Washington Capitals center Adam Oates for that award.

Buffalo's Dominik Hasek won the Vezina Trophy as outstanding goaltender for the sixth time. The Czech goalie struggled through the first portion of the season, then came on strong. He finished with a 37-24-4 record, 2.11 goals-against average, .921 save percentage and a league-leading 11 shutouts.

The other finalists in a poll of the league's 30 general managers were New Jersey's Martin Brodeur and Philadelphia's Roman Cechmanek.

Since Hasek, 36, first won the Vezina in 1994, the only other goalies selected were Jim Carey (1996) and Olaf Kolzig (2000), both of the Washington Capitals.

Only Jacques Plante with seven has won more Vezinas, but when Plante played, the award went to the goalie who yielded the fewest goals.

Lidstrom became the first European selected the league's best defenseman.

Lidstrom, 31, of Sweden, finished second among defensemen in scoring with 71 points, including 15 goals. He'd finished second for the Norris Trophy the three previous years.

The Norris, first awarded in 1954, had been won 40 times by Canadians and seven times by Americans.

Colorado's Ray Bourque and New Jersey's Scott Stevens were the other finalists.

San Jose goaltender Evgeni Nabokov, who had a .915 save percentage in 66 appearances with the Sharks, was chosen the top rookie. Nabokov, 25, is the first goaltender to win the Calder Trophy since New Jersey's Martin Brodeur in 1994.

The Russian edged Tampa Bay's Brad Richards and Ottawa's Martin Havlat.

Bill Barber, who took over the Philadelphia Flyers last Dec. 10 after Craig Ramsay was fired, and led them to a 31-13-7-3 record in 54 games, was voted coach of the year, beating out Scotty Bowman of Detroit and Ottawa's Jacques Martin, both previous winners.

When his name was announced, Barber looked around as if he didn't believe he'd heard right.

"I'm obviously very honored and flattered to be here," Barber said. "I never really expected this. It's a memorable moment for me, especially since I'm just getting my feet wet at the NHL level."

New Jersey's John Madden, in only his second full season in the NHL, took the Selke Trophy as the top defensive forward. Madden, 26, had a plus-24 rating and beat out Sakic and Dallas' Mike Modano.

Forward Adam Graves of the New York Rangers received the Bill Masterton Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey.

Sakic, Hasek, Lidstrom, Bourque, Jagr and Patrik Elias of the Devils were voted first-team all-stars. The second team featured Lemieux, Stevens, Cechmanek, Colorado's Rob Blake, Los Angeles' Luc Robitaille and Florida's Pavel Bure.

The all-rookie squad had Nabokov, Havlat, Richards, Shane Willis of Carolina, Lubomir Visnovsky of Los Angeles and Colin White of New Jersey.